There is a compartment in the base of most dishwashers that takes coarse salt, and a great many people either ignore it entirely or assume the salt is some kind…
The complaint that women's clothing has no usable pockets is old, correct, and usually explained badly.
The usual version is that women were deliberately denied pockets to keep them dependent.…
Every box of shoes, every new handbag, every electronic device arrives with a small paper packet of beads marked with instructions not to eat it, and almost all of them…
There are two different kinds of date printed on food, they mean entirely different things, and the difference is not intuitive from the wording.
One is a manufacturer's estimate of…
A light bulb attaches to a fitting in one of two ways. It either screws in on a threaded base, or it pushes in against a spring and twists a…
Look at the cap of a cheap ballpoint pen. There is a small hole in the top of it.
Most people assume it is a moulding artefact, or something to…